The Abbot: Guibert of Nogent: A Medieval Childhood

Kdy:
12.12.2019 @ 17:30 – 19:00
2019-12-12T17:30:00+01:00
2019-12-12T19:00:00+01:00
Kde:
Faculty of Arts, room P319
nám. Jana Palacha 1/2
The Abbot: Guibert of Nogent: A Medieval Childhood @ Faculty of Arts, room P319

Lecturer: Jeff Rider (Connecticut).

Annotation:

Guibert of Nogent (c. 1060 – c. 1125) was a northern French Benedictine monk, historian and theologian who ended his life as the abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy. His autobiographical work – De vita sua sive monodiarum suarum libri tres – is usually considered the first autobiography since Agustine’s Confessions. He was raised by his widowed mother, and his childhood, which he describes in some detail in his autobiography, seems to have been especially complex and stressful and offers us intriguing insights into family dynamics at the end of the eleventh century.

The lecture is a part of the series Me and the World … Autobiography in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.

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